AI Engineer

Department: Science

Location: San Francisco

Compensation: $160K – $180K • Offers Equity

Employment Type: FullTime

Our Mission and Vision

Unlearn exists to transform clinical development by making every trial smarter. We harness data, AI, and digital twins to enable faster, more robust studies that bring life-saving treatments to patients faster. This mission drives everything we do as we partner with biopharmaceutical companies to redesign how clinical trials are planned, run, and analyzed.

We are defining the future of clinical development with unmatched scientific credibility, replacing uncertainty with AI-powered precision so decisions are clearer and trials are stronger. We don’t just disrupt the pharmaceutical industry, we create lasting change.

We believe AI will define the future of medicine, and we are committed to building that future responsibly, rigorously, and in close collaboration with our partners in clinical development.

About Our Team

We come from a variety of backgrounds ranging from machine learning to marketing—but regardless of where we come from, Unlearners share some common traits:

• Unlearners are ambitious; we aren’t intimidated by big, challenging goals.

• Unlearners are disciplined experimenters; we break down our big goals into smaller chunks and meet as often as necessary to track our velocity and iterate quickly.

• Unlearners are gritty; we never give up, setbacks just make us try harder.

• Unlearners are receptive to new ideas; in fact, we hate being stuck with the status quo

• Unlearners are storytellers; sharing information with each other and with the world is super important, too important to be boring. And, last but not least,

• Unlearners are team-oriented; we put the mission first, the company second, the team third, and individuals last.

Headquartered in San Francisco, Unlearn was founded in 2017 by a team of world-class machine learning scientists. We have raised venture capital from top tier investors such as Altimeter, Insight Partners, Radical Ventures, 8VC, DCVC, and DCVC Bio, and completed our $50 million Series C in January 2024.

If our purpose and culture resonate with you, we invite you to apply.

AI Engineer. Our Science organization leads Unlearn’s efforts to build new capabilities across machine learning, statistics, and AI tools that help our teams create and deliver digital twin solutions to customers. This first-of-its-kind role at Unlearn will be responsible for scaling the use of agents for core business problems and deliver impact in efficiency and extensibility. Successful AI Engineers at Unlearn will be entrepreneurial in their approach; feeling a strong sense of end-to-end ownership of their mission, they collaborate heavily and investigate broadly to find the right tools and techniques to help their teams succeed.

Responsibilities include:

• Build AI agents, skills, and tools that are core components of our workflows to create and deliver digital twins to customers

• Build infrastructure, harnessing, and governance systems to manage agentic workflows in line with regulatory and compliance requirements

• Collaborate with scientists across research, development, and delivery teams to define and build AI-centric solutions

• Work across teams to gain user feedback and increase adoption of new tools

• Clearly communicate capabilities and use to internal and external stakeholders

• Stay up to date with developments in AI tooling to inform Unlearn’s work

Minimum requirements:

• B.S. in computer science or engineering, physics, mathematics, or a related field.

• Prior experience working with healthcare or clinical machine learning applications.

• 2+ years of experience developing AI skills, agents, and tools and applying them to solve real-world problems.

• Experience with AI systems, from infrastructure through agent creation and use.

• Experience with AWS cloud computing services.

• Evidence of successful execution of AI projects in an industry setting.

Benefits & Perks

The following benefits and perks are for full time roles only.

• Meaningful equity participation

• 100% company-covered medical, dental, & vision insurance plans

• 401k plan with matching

• Flexible PTO plus company holidays

• Annual company-wide break December 24 through January 1

• Commuter benefits

• Paid Parental Leave

Unlearn is an equal opportunity employer. 

At Unlearn, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, because inclusion and diversity are essential to achieving our mission. If you’re excited about this role, and your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply nevertheless.